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DECEMBER 14-20, 2012

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December 14-20, 2012

COVER 8 Tolkien fans rejoice in

the arrival of ‘The Hobbit’ to the big screen

MUSIC 3 Local guitar player tries to honor his late father

4 Logan Tabernacle hosts annual Christmas series

4 Voice Male returns to

Logan for holiday concert

MOVIES 7 Death of bin Laden

leads to major changes in new Kathryn Bigelow film

8 First movie in Peter

Jackson’s ‘Hobbit’ trilogy garners three stars

THEATER

“Last Light over the Farmstead” was painted by local artist Trent Gudmundsen, one of the many artists who will be featured at a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the Logan Fine Art Gallery (see page 5 for more information).

5 Pickleville Playhouse

FROM THE EDITOR

5 Old Barn delivers classic

No, that’s not a photograph of Michael Ballam up Logan Canyon gearing up for a new role for the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre this summer. It’s Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf in a scene from “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”

Now, I know what you’re thinking.

You’re thinking that inasmuch as “The Hobbit” is gracing the cover of this week’s Cache Magazine, I must be some sort of ultimate J.R.R. Tolkien fanat-

still getting very ‘Merry’

tale ‘A Christmas Carol’

ART 5 Logan Fine Art Gallery

displays fall salon winners

CALENDAR 15 See what’s happening this week

ic who speaks several Elvish languages.

Actually, it’s just the opposite.

As a child, I was highly encouraged — perhaps threatened — by my brother to read “The Hobbit.” I made it all of eight pages before calling it quits.

I haven’t seen even a minute of any movie in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy — a fact that absolutely horrified a close friend of mine when I divulged it to him recently. And most of what I know about Tolkien’s works have come courtesy of Led Zeppelin songs.

But due to some extenuating circumstances this week, a few late adjustments had to be made to this issue of Cache

Magazine, and I made the decision to highlight Aaron Peck’s review of “The Hobbit.”

It is, after all, the must-see movie of the holiday season — even if it’s not really my thing. And I recognize the fact that people have been waiting, well, perhaps since the ’50s or ’60s to see “The Hobbit” on the big screen.

So, if you’re one of those people, I sincerely hope you enjoy all 169 minutes of your visit to Middle-earth. And I also hope you won’t be offended if I see all but three of the movies in the new “Hobbit” trilogy.

— Jeff Hunter

Reconnecting through music

Logan man pays tribute to his father with video

By Jeff Hunter Cache Magazine

If you were to accidentally come across the YouTube video of David “Davy” McClay performing “Johnny B. Goode,” you would immediately wonder why a 66-year-old man is singing a 74-yearold song in his living room while playing such a peculiar-looking guitar.

And while McClay takes the time on his video to explain the reasons why he created such a unique clip, there’s even more to the story than he shares.

“I’m really having some guilt issues,” McClay admits while sitting on a couch in the same living room from the YouTube clip.

A resident of Logan since 2006, McClay is a native of Southern California. He was born in San Diego, spent his formative years around Pomona and Claremont, and later lived in Cerritos and Santa Clarita.

McClay’s father, Max, was an aerospace engineer while Davy was growing up, and in 1958, Max started to put his engineering skills to use by creating a handmade guitar for his 12-year-old son.

But even though McClay would end up playing in a

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David McClay sits in his Logan living room while holding the homemade guitar his father created for him in 1958-59.

relatively successful band during his teenage years, he insists that he never played the slightly smaller, wooden guitar until this year.

“I say that it was lost, but it was really just lost in plain sight — it’s been hanging in my garage ever since we moved here,” McClay says.

McClay explains that last February, he and a friend, Shane Leavitt, were working on a project in his garage when Leavitt spotted the guitar.

“He said, ‘If you’re not using this guitar, why don’t you give it to me?’” McClay recalls. “I said, ‘Yeah. Go ahead.’”

But within a week, Leavitt returned to McClay’s home in west Logan and said, “I’ll be happy to keep this if you want, but I’ve got to tell you, this is a masterpiece.”

“He then went on to tell me all of the amazing details that my father had carefully built into this creation that most people never would have thought of,”

McClay says.

Suddenly, McClays says he developed a new appreciation for his father, who passed away in 1983.

“It just hit my like a ton of bricks that my father had worked so hard to make that guitar, and he never got any recognition when he was alive,” McClay says. “I had it my possession for a long time, but I never really paid any attention to it. I’m just heartbroken now that I realize how much work he put into making that.”

McClay later came up with the idea to make a YouTube video as a tribute to his father, and he thought “Johnny B. Goode” would be the right song to learn how to play since the Chuck Berry classic was released in 1958 — the same year McClay’s father started making his guitar in the family’s garage.

McClay also made the video in an effort to perhaps locate another musical creation of his father’s — a marimba that Max McClay originally constructed for his daughter, Afton. McClay says one of his children took the xylophone-like instrument to Stowers Elementary School in Cerritos in 1977 and it was never seen again.

“I took my sweet time going back to pick it up, and when I got there, no one knew where it was or what had happened to it,” says McClay, who admits there’s “a one in 10 million” chance the marimba will ever be recovered.

But first and foremost, McClay wanted to find a See VIDEO on Page 10

“Does it seem a bit long and overdrawn? Yes. Will you still love it immensely if you loved the original trilogy? Oh, yeah!”

– Movie critic Aaron Peck on “The Hobbit”

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Chloe came to us all the way from Davis County, and we are happy to have her as part of the Cache Humane family. Chloe does well in most situations, and she seems to be about the perfect pet. She is not too small and not too big; perfect for an apartment or smaller household. This little doll will need regular grooming and would love to be brushed out a few times a week. She is microchipped, heartwormed tested and altered — that is a $140. Come meet this special Pomeranian. Call 792-3920 for more information.

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ALL MIXED UP

Quotable

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all mixed up Christmas music abounds at tabernacle The 2012 Logan Tabernacle Christmas Concert Series continues for another week with five more free concerts each beginning at 7 p.m.

The Westminster Bell Choir will perform tonight, followed by the Bel Canto Choir (Tuesday, Dec. 18), Imperial Glee Club (Wednesday, Dec. 19), Cache Symphony (Thursday, Dec. 20) and Bear River Reflections (Friday, Dec. 21).

Westminster Bell Choir Using four octaves of English hand bells and four octaves of chimes, the 22 members of the Westminster Bell Choir will fill the Tabernacle with the sounds of familiar Christmas hymns and carols.

The concert will also include a bell quartet, an opportunity for the audience to sing along with the bells and special pieces by talented friends of the choirs.

The Westminster Bell Choirs are interfaith

groups sponsored by Logan’s First Presbyterian Church.

Bel Canto Choir Formed in the 1930s by professor Walter Welti, the Bel Canto Chorus is one of the oldest performing groups in Cache Valley. Their Christmas Concert this year, “Caroling, Caroling,” consists of Christmas favorites from the Alfred Burt Collection, the West Indies, France and other familiar Christmas music. Laurel Maughan conducts the chorus with Deanne Vanderford at the piano.

The special guest artist for this concert is organist Ethan Johnson.

Imperial Glee Club and Quintessence Directed by Warren Barton, The Imperial Glee Club of Logan is one of the oldest independent and continuously performing male choruses in the western United States. Founded in 1916 by a small group of male singers in the LDS Logan 6th

The Imperial Glee Club will perform at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19.

Ward, the Glee Club has grown and maintained a membership of 20 to 30 men from communities throughout Cache Valley.

A staple with the Christmas Concert Series, the Glee Club will perform

a variety of Christmas favorites.

The Glee Club will be joined by Quintessence, a woodwind quintet consisting of Ali Bailey, Kelli Richardson, Warren Barton, Laverna

Voice Male returns to Logan Voice Male is returning to the Kent Concert Hall on the campus of Utah State University for its annual Christmas concert, featuring music from the popular six-man a cappella group’s all-new holiday album “Jingles 3.”

For the past several years, Voice Male has performed in front of full houses at the Ellen Eccles Theatre in downtown

Logan. However, the group’s original roots are at USU and this year they are excited to return to campus for a 1:30 p.m. matinee and a 7 p.m. performance Saturday, Dec. 15.

Tickets are $8 to $13 and are available at the USU ticket office, or online at www.voice malemusic.com.

Originally formed 18 years ago at Utah State, Voice Male

has since performed all over the Western United States for hundreds of thousands of fans.

Their music is widely recognized, with more than a quarterof-a-milion albums sold. These include the HIMS albums, as well as their award-winning Christmas albums, “Jingles” and “Jingles 2.”

See VOICE on Page 6

Horne, Candice Kempton, DeAnn Johnson and Dan Stowell. Most play several woodwind instruments enabling them to share a wide spectrum of tonal colors, and an array of music from folk tunes

to the classics.

Cache Symphony Director Robert Frost will lead the orchestra in several seasonal favorites featuring the orchestra, and James Kemp will read a Christmas story.

The orchestra will also accompany the audience in a sing-along of favorite Christmas carols. Cory Evans, director of choral activities at Utah State University, is the featured tenor soloist. Evans has performed throughout the world with several prominent orchestras and choral ensembles.

Bear River Valley Reflections Directed by Beth Lefgren, the Bear River Valley Reflections began in 1975 with six members and one accompanist.

Currently composed of 28 members, the singers for this community choir are chosen through auditions and represent an area from Thatcher to Portage to Ogden. They have performed throughout See MUSIC on Page 12

Why Sound hosts Acappella Chorus The Men’s Acappella Chorus of Cache Valley will be performing “The Colors of Christmas” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. The acoustic group Alarmingly Charming will also perform. Admission is $6 per person.

The Chorus will be

performing a complete set of 19 songs, including Christmas favorites, a couple of fun, non-traditional Christmas songs, and a sprinkling of other songs. They will cover a wide variety of a cappella genres including do-wop, barbershop, madrigal, pop acappella, classical and men’s chorus.

Reception held for winners of Salon d’Automne The Logan Fine Art Gallery will host a reception from 6 to 8 tonight to showcase the winners of its 2012 Salon d’Automne.

The works of 101 artists from Cache Valley, as well as the UtahIdaho region, are currently hanging in the Logan Fine Gallery at 60 W. 100 North. Included is this fall’s grand-prize winner “Red, White and Blue” — an oil painting

by Glen Edwards.

The art of local artist Trent Gudmundsen, who received an honorable mention award for his

oil painting “Afternoon in the Garden,” will also featured at the Logan Fine Art Gallery reception.

One of Cache Valley’s artistic treasures, Gudmundsen is a selfdescribed “small-town country boy,” but his work is being recognized regionally and nationally.

His paintings can be found in nine fine art galleries throughout the West, including the Logan Fine Art Gallery.

Gudmundsen’s work has been honored at two different Oil Paint-

ers of America national shows with an Award of Excellence at each, and his work attracted the attention of Southwest Art magazine with a full-length feature article in August 2010.

Gudmundsen is well known for his beautiful landscape oil paintings of Cache Valley, as well as his figurative work He and his wife, Lorajean, live in an old house in Logan with four children and seven pet chickens.

His family often serves as inspiration in his paintings.

Pickleville still getting ‘Merry’ Make a memory this holiday season with Pickleville Playhouse’s hilarious and heartwarming original musical production “I Believe in Christmas: A Merry Musical Comedy.”

The show plays in Logan at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Utah State University’s Eccles Conference Center, and in Salt Lake City at The Grand Theatre Dec. 18-19. An optional holiday buffet meal catered

by The Copper Mill is available before each Logan performance.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.pickleville playhouse.com or by calling

755-0968.

Show-only ticket prices are $18 for adults and $14 for children 3-11 years and under. Dinner and show prices are $34 and $24 respectively. No children under 3 years old permitted. Discounted pricing is available for company/office groups and groups of 25 people or more.

Now in its sixth season, Pickleville Christmas is an indispensable holiday tradition for thousands of families and businesses throughout Northern Utah.

This year’s show was written by T.J. Davis (creator of See MERRY on Page 13

The Willow Valley Singers and String Band will present “Rise Up and Follow!” — a program of American Christmas carols, hymns and folk songs from the 1800s to modern times, at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, in the Hyrum City Center.

The Willow Valley Singers, who specialize in religious music in the shape-note tradition and early hymn styles, have been performing together for eight years. The group is made up of singers from Nibley and surrounding areas, and the members take their name from early Cache Valley, when it was known as Willow Valley. Included in the program will be “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” “Rise Up Shepherd and Follow,” “The Cherry Tree Carol,” “How Can I Keep from Singing” and several early hymn tunes.

The Willow Valley String Band, featuring Larry Slade, will join the group on several sets of American Christmas melodies and lead the audience in singing seasonal American carols. Organized and directed by Bonnie Slade, the program promises to entertain and educate.

A can of food for the Cache Community Food Pantry will be appreciated. Christmas cookies and punch will also be offered to all.

Bar J Wranglers coming

The Cache Valley Center for the Arts is proud to present the return of the Bar J Wranglers for a pair of Christmas concerts at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Experience the spirit of the Old West as the Bar J Wranglers take their holiday charm on the road. Get ready for some more knee slappin’, toe-tappin’ fun by purchasing tickets for the entire herd. Tickets are $16 to $22 per person. Purchase online at www.

EllenEcclesTheatre.org, at the Cache Valley Center for the Arts Ticket Office located north of the Ellen Eccles Theatre at 43 S. Main St. or by calling 7520026.

Well known in Cache County and beyond, the cowpokes hailing from Jackson Hole, Wyo., present Pickleville Playhouse will perform three more a show that is two parts music, two parts stand-up comedy and all-out entertainment with a holiday Christmas shows in Logan this weekend. twist.

Old Barn presents ‘A Christmas Carol’ The Old Barn Community Theatre’s 2012 season will conclude with the inspiring holiday masterpiece “A Christmas Carol.” This song-filled adaptation of Dickens’ classic tale reawakens the true spirit of Christmas in a heart-stirring carol of profound beauty and redemption. Under the direction of and starring Marc Jensen, “A

Willow Valley Singers celebrate the holidays

Christmas Carol” will run Dec. 7 to 22.

With a heart locked up tighter than a cash box, Scrooge must encounter the visits by three spirits for the chance to open up his heart and relish in the joys and aspirations of his fellow man. It is generally well known that the play ends with redemption amid the joy

which the holiday season brings.

“A Christmas Carol” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. every Monday, Friday and Saturday Dec. 7 to 22, at the Old Barn Community Theatre in Collinston. There will also be matinees at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, and Saturday, Dec. 22.

For tickets, call (435) 458-2276 or visit www.oldbarn.org.

Kula set for benefit show

Pianist Kevin Kula and vocalist Jennifer Birchell will perform their own inspirational arrangements to many of your favorite Christmas songs in a benefit concert for the Cache Humane Society at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, at the Dansante building, 59 S. 100 West.

Tickets for the event are $12 and can be purchased at www.kevinkula.net, at the Cache Humane Society and at the door. Due to limited seating, early purchase of tickets is encouraged.

For more information call 757-0335.

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Voice Continued from Page 4 This holiday season, Voice Male released the “Jingles 3” album, which features their hallmark mix of light-

hearted and warm-hearted arrangements of Christmas standards such as “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman,” “Deck the Halls,” “O Holy Night,” “O Come All Ye Faithful” and many others.

Formed in 1994 as a nine-man group, the current version of Voice

Male includes John Huff (tenor), Mike Bearden (tenor), John Luthy (bass/ percussion), Mike Willson (bass), Rick Murdock (baritone) and Richard McCallister (high tenor).

For nearly two decades, thousands of families have made Voice Male part of their Christmas traditions. Known for

their blend of humor and tight harmonies, Voice Male has their audiences laughing and throwing ducks one moment, then turning their thoughts to the meaning of Christmas the next.

Voice Male’s concert this year is sure to blend old favorites with many of their new arrangements.

Film lauded as one of year’s best NEW YORK (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal were knee-deep in preparing the follow-up to their Oscar-winning “The Hurt Locker,” a film that would chronicle the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, his escape in Tora Bora and the vanishing trail of the world’s most wanted man.

“Then history changed,” says Bigelow.

After a team of Navy SEALs killed bin Laden in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2 last year, the director Bigelow and Boal, a journalist turned screenwriter, set about remaking their film.

Whereas most films start with a concept or a dramatic arc, Boal and Bigelow built “Zero Dark Thirty” one source at a time, piecing together a narrative out of recent history shrouded in secrecy.

The approach — a marriage of Boal’s reporting and Bigelow’s

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Navy SEALs raid Osama bin Laden’s compound in “Zero Dark Thirty.”

visceral action — has made “Zero Dark Thirty” a lightning rod. Though Sony’s Columbia Pictures won’t release it until Dec. 19 in New York and Los Angeles with a national release to follow on Jan. 11, it has already been hailed as the best film of the year, spawned a Pentagon investigation and elicited op-eds that say the film exaggerates the efficacy of torture.

“Zero Dark Thirty,” which introduces itself as “based on firsthand

accounts of actual events,” is a new kind of timely fusing of filmmaking and journalism — what Bigelow calls “an imagistic version of living history.”

Beginning with a black screen and a harrowing cacophony of voices from Sept. 11, “Zero Dark Thirty” unfolds like a decadelong revenge drama, depicting the sometimes ugly, sometimes cunning pursuit of bin Laden. The story isn’t told through politicians or public sentiment, but via ferocious

CIA officers (Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke), modeled on the real if anonymous people — the boots-on-the-ground — who led the hunt.

“It’s a movie about the work force,” says Boal, who has spent time embedded with troops in Iraq and written articles for Rolling Stone and Playboy.

Many film critics believe “Zero Dark Thirty” will repeat the Academy Awards feat of “The Hurt Locker,” which won

both best picture and best director for Bigelow— the first such win for a female filmmaker.

But it has also stirred up considerable controversy, and some claim it’s too journalistic — that the filmmakers learned of confidential identities and details in their liaisons with the military.

It began when the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained records from the Defense Department and the CIA that detailed meetings in which Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers allegedly provided the identity of the commander of SEAL Team 6 — the unit that killed bin Laden — and of tactical planning on the raid. Homeland Security Committee Chairman

Peter King, R-N.Y., then raised questions over the making of the film. The Pentagon and CIA have conducted internal investigations into the matter.

“If anything, I’m much more concerned than I was originally,” says King, citing an ongoing investigation with the Defense Department. “People in the military were being pressured to cooperate with Hollywood and Hollywood was given access to areas of personnel it shouldn’t have access to.”

The White House, which some claimed was eager to glamorize President Obama’s role in the raid, has See ZERO on Page 13

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Hunting bin Laden, history in ‘Zero Dark 30’

AP Photo/Warner Bros.

Top, Martin Freeman stars as Bilbo Baggins in the fantasy adventure “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” Above, from left: Dean O’Gorman as Fili; Aidan Turner as Kili; Mark Hadlow as Dori; Jed Brophy as Nori; and William Kircher as Bifur. Right, Gollum is voiced by Andy Serkis.

Return to Middle-earth

First installment of ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy worthy of three stars

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ver since the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy ended with the Oscar-winning “Return of the King,” people immediately began wondering if Peter Jackson would swing back around and make “The Hobbit” into a movie. Then word came that he, indeed, was going to do “The Hobbit.” Not only that, but he was going to do it in three films. That seemed like overkill. Could he really squeeze that much content out of one book, which is much shorter and far less dense than the big three? I found myself wondering that when I walked into the theater to screen “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” Needless to say, my question was answered.

Jackson has seen fit to couple the original story of “The Hobbit” with other anecdotes, stories, and characters from Tolkien’s appendices.

So, instead of getting the straight up story of young Bilbo journeying with a group of dwarves to face down the evil dragon Smaug, we get quite a bit of information added in to stretch the story out through three long films (this first one clocks in at 169 minutes).

We begin in the Shire where Bilbo (Martin Freeman) is 60 years younger. Gandalf (Ian McKellen) approaches the young Baggins and simply asks if he wants to go on an adventure. After that we’re immediately thrust back into the world that Jackson made so familiar with the original trilogy. Bilbo’s house looks exactly the same. It soon feels over-

whelmingly comfortable. Like we never even left Middle-earth.

Bilbo’s home quickly fills with a dozen dwarves as they plan an excursion to their once great city. It was taken over by Smaug, the gold-loving dragon, and now they want it back.

It’s true that you could easily fit the entire book of “The Hobbit” into one movie. Everything’s a trilogy now, though. The studios are looking to squeeze as much money as possible out of each franchise. With the story stretched to its absolute maximum, it’s easy to recognize the filler material. The movie drags through the middle as Jackson laboriously introduces obscure characters and plotlines in order to inflate the running time.

At the core of the movie, however, is a strong character with an interesting story.

There is one scene in the movie, where Bilbo comes faceto-face with Gollum for the first time, which is by far the best moment in the movie. The two of them have a battle of riddles, and the tension is palpable. It’s there we’re first introduced to the infamous ring that will cause so much trouble later on.

It’s there we see how strong-willed Bilbo Baggins really is and how deviously underhanded Gollum is.

As always, Jackson’s visuals are stunning. However, I didn’t really connect with his decision to film the whole film at 48 frames per second (the standard is 24 fps). The idea behind a higher frame rate is to create a smoother picture. What ends up happening is the movie ends up with

that dreaded soap opera look. It looks great when we’re scanning over huge naturalistic vistas and wonderfully created computer animated castles, but up close and personal with the characters, it makes them look phony. I’d recommend seeing it in a theater that is projecting the movie at 24 fps.

“The Hobbit” has its share of adventurous action (the sequence with the goblins is jaw-dropping).

It’s as enjoyable as any of the mov-

ies you’ll see around the holiday season. Does it seem a bit long and overdrawn? Yes. Will you still love it immensely if you loved the original trilogy? Oh, yeah!

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“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Jour-

ney,” released by the Warner Bros. banner New Line Cinema and MGM, is rated PG-13 for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images.

The Reel Place Aaron Peck

Filmmaker Peter Jackson returns to the world of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Jackson, cast discuss film WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Many fans are eagerly anticipating a return to the fictional world of Middle-earth with next week’s general release of the first movie in “The Hobbit” trilogy. Director Peter Jackson and the film’s stars speak to The Associated Press about making “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”: • Jackson on shooting at 48

frames per second instead of the standard 24: “We’ve seen the arrival of iPhones and iPads and now there’s a generation of kids — the worry that I have is that they seem to think it’s OK to wait for the film to come out on DVD or be available for download. And I don’t want kids to see ‘The Hobbit’ on See FILM on Page 11

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Video Continued from Page 3 way to honor his father, who he says “was never really appreciated for the man he was … especially by me.”

McClay’s parents ended up getting divorced, and he says he and his sisters “really gave them a hard time” when they were young.

In the “Johnny B. Goode” clip, McClay tries to duckwalk like Chuck Berry — only he’s wearing a scoutmaster uniform. He explains that his father was a longtime leader for the Boy Scouts of America, and that he’s still tormented by an incident in the church parking lot when he was 15 years old and serving as a patrol leader.

“I’m so embarrassed

Photo courtesy of David McClay

David McClay, left, was featured in a San Diego newspaper in 1952 for the family orchestra directed by his father, Max.

to say this, but one night he got so frustrated with me, that he just started sobbing,” McClay recalls.

“He just didn’t know what to do with me. That was the only time I ever saw him cry. It’s just heartbreaking to think that I hurt him so bad … because, boy, I was bad.”

McClay then points out that he has a Ph.D — even though he never graduated from high school. He

says he was kicked out of five different schools as a teenager and blew his final chance to graduate by tossing a cat carcass across the school cafeteria before it could be dissected by a biology class.

Ironically, McClay later quit a successful career as an aerospace engineer so he could go back to college and become a teacher.

He ended up getting a doctorate in education and

worked for the Los Angeles Unified School District for many years before he retired, and he and his second wife, Shirley, moved to Cache Valley.

But before he straightened up and got serious about his education, McClay played bass guitar in a band called Gene Gray and the Stringrays, which had a Top 20 hit in 1963 with a song called “Surf Bunny.” After Gray was drafted, the band became known as the Dynamic Five, and the group spent a year serving as the road band for an ABC-TV show called “Shindig!”

The Dynamic Five then went into the recording studio to make a record.

“We were a really fantastic band,” McClay says.

“After cutting the record, we walked out the studio feeling like we had really

connected on it. It was a fantastic session.

“But,” he adds, “within two weeks, we broke up.”

On the plus side, McClay says the sudden breakup “changed his life.”

“I got back to my roots of being a good religious boy, because I was not being very religious at the time being in a rock band,” he explains. “I was being kind of a bad

boy in a lot of ways.

“I was having fun, though,” he adds with a laugh.

And thanks to reconnecting with a six-decadeold, homemade guitar, McClay is having fun playing music once again.

——— David McClay’s YouTube tribute to his father can be found at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=94TUoJBF_ww.

Film Continued from Page 9 their iPads, really. Not for the first time. So as a filmmaker, I feel the responsibility to say, ‘This is the technology we have now, and it’s different ... How can we raise the bar? Why do we have to stick with 24 frames? ...’”

“The world has to move on and change.

And I want to get people back into the cinema. I want to play my little tiny role in encouraging that beautiful, magical, mysterious experience of going into a dark room full of strangers, and being transported into a piece of escapism.”

• Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins) on shooting some scenes without other actors around: “I must admit I found the green screen and all that easier than I thought I would. ...

I found the technical aspect of it quite doable.

Some of it’s difficult, but it’s quite enjoyable, actually. It taps into when I used to play ‘war’ as a 6-year-old. And the Germans were all imaginary. Because I was playing a British person.

So yeah, I was on the right side. ...”

On marrying his performance to that of Ian Holm, who played an older Bilbo Baggins in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy: “I knew I couldn’t be a slave to it. Because as truly

fantastic as Ian Holm earth in a cameo role: dwarfs have big ideas is in everything, and “It was a gift to come about themselves ...” certainly as Bilbo, I back ... what they’d • Andy Serkis (Gollum) can’t just go and do an constructed was such a on taking on the additional role of second-unit impression of Ian Holm beautiful remembrance director: “There were for a year and a half. of the characters from only a couple of times Because it’s my turn. the original trilogy.” where there were really, But it was very useful • Cate Blanchett (Galreally black days where for me to watch and lis- adriel) on the toughest ten to stuff he did, vocal part of filming: “Trying I went away thinking, ticks or physical ticks, to keep my children off ‘This is it. I can’t do it.’

But on the whole, Pete that I can use but not the set.”

(Jackson) was so brilliant feel hamstrung by.”

• Richard Armitage at allowing me to set stuff (Thorin Oakenshield) • Hugo Weaving (Elrond) on the differenc- on being a 6-foot-2 guy playing a dwarf: “It’s es in tone to the “Rings” amazing how quickly trilogy: “This one feels lighter, more buoyant, but you get used to it. And also, we spent most of it’s got quite profoundly the shoot much bigger moving sequences in it, than a 6-foot-2 guy. I too ... I think it’s very mean, I had lifts in my different in many ways, and yet it’s absolutely the shoes, I was wider, I same filmmaker, and you was taller, and biggerhaired. And I actually are inhabiting the same think that was quite world.” an interesting place to • Elijah Wood (Frodo) be, because I do think on returning to Middle-

up and then critiquing my work ... but at least I would have my stab at it.”

On the film itself: “I think it’s a great story.

I think it’s a beautifully crafted film with great heart. A rollicking adventure, and it feels to me like this really massive feast that everyone will enjoy eating.”

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Music Continued from Page 4 Northern Utah, including appearances at Temple Square and the Festival of Trees.

The Tabernacle Concerts is a service of Cache Community Connections

and is supported by the Cache County RAPZ Tax. We are grateful to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for allowing the use of the beautiful and historic Logan Tabernacle.

For more information, visit logantabernacle. blogspot.com or facebook. com/logantabernacle.

Your Stuff “Save the Child”

“‘Twas Two Weeks Before Christmas”

By Jerry Brian Anderson

By Iris Nielsen ‘Twas two weeks before Christmas And I with my mouse Had just settled down For the newsletter grouse

Hoping to escape the eminent crash I fumbled and searched To save the document to a flash My efforts were noble

The border was chosen The font was just so The story line settled All systems were go

Really trying my best Not today; Word taunted This crash is no test Blue screen and shut down

I settled back in my chair And what before my tired eyes should appear, Bold warnings and text box A virus is near

All documents lost Restore not possible But could be fixed at a cost Nothing more could be done

Zero Continued from Page 7 called the claims false. (Obama’s ordering of the raid isn’t even depicted in the film.) Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the former CIA director who’s played by James Gandolfini in the film, told the Senate in June that no unauthorized information was provided to the filmmakers.

Lt. Col. James Gregory, a Defense Department spokesman, said the hourlong meeting with Boal and Bigelow was part of a “system that has been in place for many, many years” to ensure Hollywood has the necessary background to represent the military accurately.

“The Department of Defense routinely provides information to reputable filmmakers,” says Gregory. “In this case, one meeting occurred where we provided some strategic context and explored possibilities of providing some assistance. However, no assistance was ever provided to the filmmakers.”

“We got caught up in an election year,” says Boal, who denies receiving classified information and says he has not participated in any subsequent

At this time on the phone Good bye and warm wishes I was left all alone No newsletter this year Maybe isn’t so bad I’ll send them this story About the struggle I had Sign cards with Merry Christmas Happy holidays and the like It will be very special If I remember how to write

investigations.

With her ninth film, the 61-year-old Bigelow seems to have — in her collaboration with Boal — found the subjects to match her long-held interest in violence and visceral storytelling.

After films like the action flick “Point Break” and the cyber thriller “Strange Days,” Bigelow is clearly now drawn to dramatizing the lives of those toiling for the U.S. on the front lines of war and terrorism.

“The opportunity to humanize an environment that works in the shadows and humanize a work force that has a very important job that is sort of opaque to the general public is exciting,” says Bigelow, whose “Hurt Locker” captured the adrenaline rush of a bomb squad expert in the Iraq War. In “Zero Dark Thirty” (the title is taken from the military term for 30 minutes after midnight, when the raid took place), obsessive tip gathering, brutal interrogations at “black sites” and high-tech geo-tracking culminate in a recreation of the raid in Abbottabad, for which a full-scale copy of bin Laden’s compound was built in Jordan. Bigelow, with cinematographer Greig Fraser, outfitted cameras with night-vision goggles to mimic the experience of the SEALs.

Save the child ...

Still too new To the world To comprehend The price of Politics, The cost of War. Save the child ...

Still pure And innocent, Full of love For life And more.

Save the child ...

Still in you ...

Still worth Searching for.

Continued from Page 5 the “Bandito” series) and features plenty of the company’s signature brand of family comedy, along with several original and traditional holiday tunes that will put even the “Grinchiest” of souls in a holiday mood.

Mr. Claus and his helpers will be available before and after each performance to take gift requests and interact with children of all ages.

Audience members are encouraged to bring their wish lists.

Cast members include Megan Heaps, Jordan Todd Brown, Jessica Jenkins, Christian Hobbs, Sharli King, Tanner Davis, Grace Mickelson and T.J. Davis.

Scenes of torture have been one homeland.” He menaces to a battered, of the film’s biggest talking points. pulpy detainee: “This is what defeat Though CIA detainees have been looks like, bro. Your jihad is over.” said by Dianne Feinstein, head of While various accounts have sugthe Senate Intelligence Committee, gested a handful of particularly key not to have played a part in the intelCIA officers — including a female ligence gathering that led to killing officer — tracked down bin Laden, bin Laden, a detainee is shown in the “Zero Dark Thirty” focuses on one, film to help lead to identifying bin named Maya in the movie and played Laden’s courier. by Chastain.

When Obama shuts down the detainMany moviegoers will come out of ee program, CIA officers complain in the film wondering if that unknown the film about intelligence drying up. female agent played as large of a role Some, like New York Times columnist as “Zero Dark Thirty” suggests. The Frank Bruni, have claimed the film is actress believes Maya is “100 percent thus pro-torture. accurate,” though Boal tempers that, The filmmakers hope the movie is seen as being straightforward and sans saying, “it’s a movie.” agenda — an analytical history that “There’s a narrative imperative asks the audience “to lean into their once you start to focus on an indiown conclusions,” says Bigelow. The vidual, that you see everything intended perspective, she says with through that individual’s eyes,” he relish, is: “On the ground, in the center says. “It’s not untruthful. But there of that hunt.” were a lot of people that contributed “What better place to be?” says to this and there were a lot of other Bigelow. “It’s where I wanted to be. I women, for example, that contribwanted to put the audience right in the uted to this who are represented in middle of it and keep it as subjective and immediate and visceral and primal truncated fashion.”

The film doesn’t pertain to have all as I possibly could.” the answers, just some of the facts. It Clarke, an Australian actor, is ends not with flag-waving but with a gaining acclaim for his physical question. The conversation started by performance as a CIA officer carry“Zero Dark Thirty,” it would seem, has ing out the interrogations amid the oft-repeated directive to “protect the only just begun.

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28. Simplicity 29. Some male dolls 30. Sign of healing 32. Skitter 35. Novelist’s need 37. Turning point?

38. Schmaltz 40. Muhammad’s religion 42. Perfume 43. Is engaged in a shoot-out 48. Gametes 49. Ridgeline 50. Bank 51. Rule opposed by Gandhi 54. Four-stroke internal-combustion engine inventor 57. Hang out 59. ___ out a win 60. Tip-top 61. Common follower 62. Palindromic title 63. Society’s 400 66. Candle ingredient 68. Attract strongly 73. Sleep disorder: Var. sp.

74. Medicates 75. Took the bait 76. Goose egg 77. ___ dancer 78. Jerk 79. Obscure 81. Horace volume 82. One-striper: Abbr.

83. Legal paper

85. Pneumonia type 88. Long stretch 90. 1974 film starring Paul Newman 96. English physicist Paul 98. Contender 99. “Silent Spring” subject 100. Tin ___ 101. Jungian concepts 103. Cry during a 106-Across 106. See 103-Across 107. While lead-in 108. Punishment unit 110. Debt instrument 111. Put on 113. Hit it off 120. Really dumb 121. Excite 122. Way places 123. Spread around 124. Rushes 125. President Taft’s alma mater 126. Downy surface Down 1. Sleeved vestment 2. Moldovan moolah 3. By chance 4. Bogus 5. Circus cries 6. One way to swing 7. Purposeful action 8. Vitamin B1 9. Dark time for poets 10. Long ___ 11. 20 Questions category 12. Carbamide 13. Old hat 14. “Walking on Thin Ice” singer 15. Absent 16. Compares 17. Repay, in a way 18. Match parts 20. Slight 24. Hurler’s stat.

25. Eyebrow ___ 30. Theater sound

31. Cloak-and-dagger org.

32. Fifth note 33. Call to attention 34. Hamburg’s river 36. Naysay 38. Statehouse V.I.P. 39. Earache 41. Flea ___ 44. “You stink!”

45. 8 pts.

46. Modern address 47. Last of 26 51. ___ de Lassus 52. Social breakdown 53. Brilliant people 54. Senescence 55. Atlantic game fish 56. Sharp sounds 58. Japanese ___ 59. Ending of the Bible 60. Tie indicator 62. Amber, e.g.

63. Easily tamed bird 64. Math figure 65. “___ time” 66. Hindquarters 67. Toward the tiller 69. Try to win 70. Thomas Bowdler, for one 71. Electric ___ 72. Part of a geisha’s attire 78. Little bird 79. Sliding door site 80. Physics unit 81. Wedded 83. George Michaels’ old group 84. Take back 85. Bulgarian monetary unit 86. Kind of thermometer 87. Hyperbolic numbers 89. “How ___ Has the Banshee Cried” (Thomas Moore poem) 90. Musical interval 91. Bill of pop 92. Swear words?

93. Class ___ 94. Bread served with

korma 95. Crumb 96. Rarely used contraction 97. Anthropod 102. Thus ___ the Lord 104. “Then Came ___” (Spinners tune) 105. Brazen one 106. Old 45 player 107. Auspices: Var. 109. Gull-like bird 111. Orr score 112. It’s just for openers 114. Without precedent 115. Social worker?

116. Ground breaker 117. Capt.’s guess 118. Part of a cell nucleus 119. Telesthesia

answers from last week

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Friday Come support the Cache Humane Society by attending the Music from the Heart concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, at the Dansante Building, 59 S. 100 West. Pianist Kevin Kula and vocalist Jennifer Birchell will perform inspirational arrangements of many popular Christmas songs. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at www. kevinkula.net or at the Cache Humane Society.

Play with Me music class for parents or caregivers and children up to five years of age will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 14, at the Smithfield Recreation Center, 315 E. 600 South in Smithfield. Developmentally appropriate and fun music interventions to foster exploration and learning. Interventions are singing, instrument playing, movement and dance, music listening and rhythm designed to improve child’s body awareness, turn taking, attention span, listening, creativity and speech. Parents will be taught skills and songs that can be used at home to reinforce what is taught in class. For more information, visit www.facebook. com/playwithmemusic.

Raquel Clausius will perform at 4:45 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. Clausius’s music is an organic blend of unwrinkled vocals and acoustic guitar that will be sure to stir an audience’s emotions and leave endless lyrical interpretations.

Acoustic oldies group Relic will perform from 6 to 8 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 14, at Pier 49 San Francisco Style Sourdough Pizza. This is a great sounding group.! Many people in the valley have heard The Fender Benders classic rock band. Relic is the “unplugged” version of that band.

Preview them at relicacousticband.com. No cover charge; everyone is welcome.

The Heritage Theatre presents Madison Square Garden’s “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” at 7:30 p.m. Mondays, Fridays

and Saturdays from Nov. 30 to Dec. 22. Located at 2505 S. U.S. Hwy. 89 in Perry, the Heritage Theatre will also hold matinees at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, and Saturday, Dec. 15. Tickets are $9 for adults and $8 for seniors and children. Call (435) 723-8392 for reservations.

SATURDAY The Cache Valley Basketball Academy and Elite Teams will be holding our annual Christmas giving tree project from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Walmart in North Logan. Our kids will be outside collecting groceries, gifts and donations for several local families.

Utah’s acclamined contemporary a cappella group Voice Male will perform concerts at 1:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at USU’s Kent Concert Hall.

Tickets are $10 and $15 and are available through the USU ticket office at 797-8022.

This year’s Elk Festival will be held at Hardware Ranch WMA from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. There will be many fun and free family activities, in addition to the regular sleigh rides and visitor center (open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). Activities will include fish printing, wildlife Christmas ornament crafting and more. Sleigh rides will be at the regular price: $5 for adults (ages 9 and above), $3 for kids (ages 4-8), and free for toddlers and infants (ages 3 and younger).

The visitor center and activities/ crafts will be free while supplies last.

The American West Heritage Center will greet the Christmas season by holding its second annual Frontier Christmas Feast from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, in Wellsville. The Christmas Feast will take place in AWHC’s Livery Stable, a favorite for the center with its rough-hewn wood panels and old-fashioned posts.

The Frontier Christmas Feast starts with a bountiful Dutch-oven country dinner catered by Cache

Valley’s own Elements restaurant.

Also included in the reservation and price, are live music, wagon rides and a gunfight show to celebrate the season. The Frontier Christmas Feast cost is $29.95 for adults and $24.95 for children, ages 3-11. Reservations must be made by Wednesday, Dec. 12.

Call 245-6050.

The Colors of Christmas concert with the Men’s A Cappella Chorus of Cache Valley will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Why Sound, 30 Federal Ave. The acoustic group Alarmingly Charming will also perform. Cost is $6.

The Bar J Wranglers will perform at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.

Saturday Dec. 15, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Tickets are $16 to $22 and are available at www. centerforthearts.us.

Join us for the Loaves & Fishes Holiday Community Meal from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 15, at the First Presbyterian Church, 12 S. 200 West (lunch entrance on 200 West upstairs). We will have a delicious turkey and roast beef dinner along with festive holiday music and a visit from Santa Claus. For more information, call 752-0871. See you there.

“The Polar Express” comes to the Whittier Community Center at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at 290 N. 400 East. Celebrate the holidays with a cozy party that will include a dramatic reading of “The Polar Express” as well as hot cocoa, cookies, caroling and special gifts to those “who believe.” Wear pajamas and a robe and bring a pillow and a blanket to sit on, if you’d like.

Tickets are $5 and are sold at the door. Adults are free with child admission; children under two are free.

The Utah State University Museum of Anthropology invites the public to join them and celebrate with a Festivals of Light from around the globe Saturday, Dec. 15. Learn more about many holiday festivities

including: Diwali, Hanukkah, St. Lucia’s Day, Christmas, St. Martin’s Day and Loi Krathong.

Guests are invited to get into the holiday spirit and make holiday luminaries with both paper bags and tissue paper. USU students and members of the public are always invited to the museum any time during open hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The USU Museum of Anthropology is on the USU campus in the south turret of the historic Old Main building, room 252. Free parking is available in the adjacent lot, south of the building. For more information on this event, call 797-7545 or visit anthromuseum. usu.edu.

Greenleaf Gifts & Greenhouse is having their annual SipN-Shop from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 15, through Saturday, Dec. 22, at 48 W. Center St., Providence. Come see new artisans and their local handmade items for your gift-giving needs and enjoy some hot wassail while you shop. There will also be free limeades and live music at 6 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 22.

The Sister Shop Fashion Show will be held at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Sister Shop, 55 W. Center St. Cute and modest clothing for women will be on display, along with yummy treats and great prizes. Visit www.the-sister-shop. com for more information.

SUNDAY Tanner McDowell will perform at noon Sunday, Dec. 16, at Caffe Ibis, 52 Federal Ave. McDowell’s music is a soulful medley of blues, funk and rock, with a splash of contemporary acoustic and a pinch of classical.

MONDAY Common Ground Outdoor Adventures, a non-profit that serves individuals with disabilities, is having a holiday party from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Dec.

17. Free of cost. To sign up or request more information call 713-0288.

TUESDAY Common Ground Outdoor Adventures, a non-profit that serves individuals with disabilities, is hosting ice skating part of a continuous ice-sports clinic from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18. To request more information call 713-0288.

Macey’s in Providence will host a Scrumptious Soufflé class at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18, at the Little Theatre. Soufflés are one of the hardest things to make; they’re forever going flat and it’s hard to even want to do them isn’t it? Elaine Reese, our resident professional caterer, has graciously offered to teach us just how easy it can be. She has years of experience since she’s been making them since she was only 11 years old. Please reserve a seat at the sevice desk or on Facebook.

The North Logan Library will be hosting Story Time at 10:10 and 11 a.m. and Sleepy Time at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18.

WEDNESDAY Common Ground Outdoor Adventures, a non-profit that serves individuals with disabilities, is going snowshoeing in the full-moon light from 6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 19. Cost is $3.

To request more information call 713-0288 Macey’s in Providence will host a Passion for Pies class at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, at the Little Theatre. Teresa and Tiffany Osbourne are our favorite mother-daughter teaching duo, and they love to cook as healthy as they possibly can.

They’ve found a great new way to make crust that won’t make you cringe at the calories, and it still makes a devilishly great tasting pie. Please reserve a seat at the sevice desk or on Facebook.

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